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No Offer – Interviewed in Washington, DC Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 29, 2013
Interview Details – The first interview was a phone interview and casual. Easy to pass. Second was an on-site interview lasted about 3 hours. Their developers will come in pairs and ask you technical problems to solve. Then their manager will come and ask you about some general questions i.e. what's your career goal etc.
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Nov 2011 – Reviewed Nov 29, 2011
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1st round interview. Motivation, why BB? Why Software developer. brain teaser: about 5 questions.
how many trailing zeros are there in 100!
How to identify a bottle of poison pills among 4 normal ones? the poison pills weights 10% less than normal pills
Interview Question – How to identify a bottle of poison pills among 4 normal ones? the poison pills weights 10% less than normal pills View Answer
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY May 2010 – Reviewed Jul 22, 2010
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They first asked me to take up a programming interview and then a phone interview and then an onsite interview.
They asked me on string reversal with only letters of a word reversed in a sentence.
Interview Question – How do you reverse a string containing many sentences? The constraint is that you should only reverse letters of a word and not the words in the sentence. View Answers (2)
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 28, 2013
Interview Details – 1 interview & 1 written test.straight forward
Interview Question – straight forward View Answer
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Reviewed Jan 14, 2013
Interview Details – I applied trough campus recruiting for my university's job fair. In a few days they got back to me with where and when the interview would be scheduled. It was an interview with two women, one working in HR and the other who has just previously been hired after her internship, which allowed me to ask her some questions.
Interview Question – They have asked me to name the most important financial indicator for a company. View Answer
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in Sep 2011 – Reviewed Jan 20, 2012
Interview Details – Was asked questions on data structures basically. Trees, linked lists, circular linked lists. How to identify repeat elements in a circular linked list. How to identify if the linked list was circular.
Interview Question – How do u identify if a linked list is a circular linked list or not? Answer Question
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Tokyo (Japan) Aug 2010 – Reviewed Aug 13, 2010
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Applied to a summer intern position at Information Systems/Operation department at Tokyo Office.
I was mainly asked about my educational background, including bachelor's thesis and current research project in my graduate school.
Interview Question – Are you interested in this internal information systems position? Answer Question
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Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) Mar 2009 – Reviewed Apr 14, 2010
Interview Details – I have applied via careers.bloomberg.com website. After CV screening I had a phone interview. Questions were very basic: difference between array and list, what is polymorhpism, difference between C++ and Java. Interviewer claimed that methods in Java are not virtual unless you explicitly use virtual modifier (!). 30 minutes later I received an e-mail with invitation for in-house interview. In London I had one 2:1 interview, questions covered data structures, memory management in Linux (I had linux kernel development exp in my resume), some brain teasers.
Interview Question – Describe function invocation protocol in C (registers, stack, order of args) Answer Question
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No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2010 – Reviewed Mar 18, 2010
Interview Details – I got the information about the company from college and apply online - both college career website and the company's. 3 weeks later, I was asked to take an online programming test, I choose to take C++ test.(You have 4 options, C, C++, Java, and C#). Really difficult, for only 3 minutes for each question with 5 options to select. 20 in all. But I think I could have done much better if I had knew how the test would be like. Luck is an important part.
Interview Question – What function can be used to display base, eg. hex, in C++ and what's the format of it? View Answer
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No Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) Jan 2010 – Reviewed Jan 23, 2010
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Seemed like a nice office when you come in - free food and drinks in the kitchen as soon as you enter the building, and a nice modern office space in which the interview took place.
Interview was very technical, as applying for a technology position. Few competency questions, went over the CV a little, but soon came on to the programming questions on C, even though main language is Java.
Interview Question – Pointers based question with pre-written code - "Why doesn't this code work" Answer Question
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